The Fort Worth Police, along with the Tarrant County District Attorney have brought the Metroplex to a new low for civil liberties.
For the MADD/fascism crowd here is your hero,
The idea for the ‘no refusal’ holiday actually came from senior prosecutor Lloyd
A great Drey Carey video for reason.tv. Dallas PD sent a SWAT team to bust up a VFW poker game. Absolutely shameful. Dallas SWAT continues to embarass the city with misguided poker raids.
Even the most casual observer of criminal justice can see the blatant hypocrisy of our State’s poker ban. Gambling in Texas is legal only if the State runs it. The Texas Lottery sells poker scratch off tickets, inter alia. Try and run a private poker game and we send a SWAT team to shut you down. Private poker is illegal. Our State’s gambling laws exist only to protect the State’s gaming monopoly.
After uncovering Austin PD warrant less surveillance deal with Austin Energy, I filed an Open Records request with Dallas PD.
Sgt. Randy Hooper of the Open Records unit reports that no such agreements exists for either Dallas PD or the Dallas County Sheriff. Your electric bills are safe, for now.
I don’t know if this is a victory for privacy or freedom, but at least it is not a loss.
DWI laws are dangerous because we give officers to much discretion too arrest. Law enforcement discretion combined with an erosion of constitutional protections leads to injustice every time.
Freedom, liberty, and the now defunct Bill of Rights used to protect us from corrupt law enforcement. Today, criminal defense lawyers are freedom’s last hope.
This leads me to the story of Tray B.. Tray was arrested by Plano PD for DWI. The Plano Star Courier reports that during Boswell’s DWI trial, his criminal attorney Phillip, requested the cell phone records from Sarah B., Trey’s wife. Trey and Sarah were going through a divorce. Child custody was an issue.
DMN has a great piece on a new scandal for the DPD. It seems that 3 officers wrote tickets without probable cause, wrote multiple tickets for the same offense, had citizens sign “blank tickets” and filled in the infractions later, and issued “at large” tickets after citing an individual in person.
At large tickets are issued when the suspect is not available to cite in person. If the ticket is not mailed to the right address and the suspect never appears in court a warrant can be issued. It seems that defendants were jailed without any knowledge of a ticket being issued.
DMN speculates that these highly decorated officers were motivated to “write more tickets so that it appears they are working harder than their peers. Cpls. Stecker, Nelson and Schoelen have been prolific ticket writers.. “
The Collin County DA has chosen not to prosecute the Dateline NBC/Perverted Justice internet sex predator cases.
The DA claims to lack jurisdiction in some cases, and to lack evidence and cooperation from Perverted Justice in others. Perverted Justice is angry and states that “We’ve gone from questioning the competency of the Collin County prosecutor’s office to questioning their sanity.”
It is never politically popular to not charge pedophiles. It leads me to wonder if any other factors were at play? Bad blood between the CCDA and PJ? Or the CCDA and the Murphy PD? Residents of Murphy were upset with the entire production taking place in their neighborhood. Other residents are upset the cases are not being filed.
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